About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Problem solving

Objectives

• Problem solve while reading to remember important information in text
• Identify mystery genre
• Identify and create similes
• Solve a content vocabulary acrostic

Materials

• Book -- The Mystery of Granville Library (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Problem solving, similes, acrostic worksheets

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: acrostics, binding, catalog, copyright, dead end, decades, discovered, instill, King Arthur, Middle Ages, mysteries, pattern, Renaissance, riddle, Romance languages, scanning, secrets, treasure